Recaps

Xu Ai, Hen Ren, and Luo Feng advanced through the battles to reach the top ten of the genius showdown, while Hong was eliminated from the top 20. The next round paired Xu Ai with Qianshui and Luo Feng with Long Yun, whose deep mastery of the Law of Earth Origin suggested he had a hidden trump card.

• Xu Ai, Hen Ren, Bolan, Jialaisi, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, and Hong won their first battles, and Nine Swords Venerable named the 20 contestants advancing to the next round.
• Hong accepted his elimination with good humor, while Xu Ai, Hen Ren, and Raiden Shogun noticed that his soul was transforming.
• Hen Ren defeated Gusiluo instantly, Xu Ai quickly beat her opponent, and Bolan and Luo Feng were the next to advance.
• Xu Ai, Hen Ren, Bolan, Luo Feng, Rong Jun, Ai Chen, Long Yun, Jiang Mo, Qianshui, and Wuka made the top ten and earned entry to the Taichu Secret Realm.
• Nine Swords Venerable announced that the top ten would be paired according to their previous battle times, and Xu Ai learned she would face Qianshui while Luo Feng would face Long Yun.
• Hong and Rong Jun warned Luo Feng that Long Yun had shown only his profound Law of Earth Origin mastery, suggesting he had concealed a trump card.

Xu Ai, Hen Ren, Bolan, Luo Feng, and Rong Jun began the final Reincarnation Battle, with Xu Ai easily defeating Luo Feng, Bolan, and Rong Jun. Xu Ai and Hen Ren fought to a standstill while Nine Swords Venerable reflected on the finalists’ strength and the planet that produced several of them.

• Xu Ai joined the other four finalists after killing Qianshui, and Nine Swords Venerable announced the round-robin final.
• Xu Ai broke through Luo Feng’s Heavenly Sword Form and defeated him with a single strike.
• Hen Ren defeated Bolan, and Xu Ai then beat Bolan with one slash.
• Xu Ai instantly defeated Rong Jun with a strike resembling Raiden Shogun’s technique.
• Luo Feng and Rong Jun began their match as Xu Ai and Hen Ren fought fiercely across the arena.
• Nine Swords Venerable praised the finalists’ strength and wondered how their planet had produced so many geniuses.

The Genius Tournament ended, and Xu Ai, Hen Ren, Raiden Shogun, Luo Feng, and Hong prepared to leave Earth for the Initial Universe under King Longyu’s escort. After a month with their families and Earth’s transformation into a protected, important planet, Xu Ai and her companions arrived at Rain Phase Mountain and met their escort leaders.

• Hen Ren defeated Xu Ai in the final battle, and Nine Swords Venerable declared the Genius Tournament over.
• King Longyu told Xu Ai, Hen Ren, and Raiden Shogun that they had a month with their families before she escorted them to the Initial Universe.
• Ganwu Universe Country sent specialists to fortify Earth and helped establish a Virtual Universe Company branch there.
• Xu Ai said goodbye to her friends and family, then boarded King Longyu’s spacecraft with Luo Feng and Hong alongside Hen Ren and Raiden Shogun.
• Xu Ai, Hen Ren, and Raiden Shogun teleported to Rain Phase Mountain and met their Immortal escort leaders, including Terra, Lillian, and Mei.

Luo Feng and Hong asked Hen Ren for advice on spending their points, and she recommended a space-law manual to Luo Feng while telling Hong to wait. After Xu Ai and the others broke through to Universe Level, Hen Ren and Raiden Shogun advanced their Law comprehension, while Xu Ai checked out her new clone.

• Luo Feng and Hong visited Hen Ren and showed her the items they were considering buying.
• Hen Ren advised them not to rush into buying combat upgrades and recommended Drifting Blood and Space-Time Essays to Luo Feng.
• Luo Feng bought the first two volumes of Space-Time Essays for all his points, while Hong decided to save his points until they reached Chaos City.
• Hen Ren ended the visit and began cultivating, and her breakthrough to Universe Level helped her understand the ninth essence of the Law of Space.
• King Longyu noticed Hen Ren tracing the Law of Space and Raiden Shogun tracing the Law of Time, while Xu Ai lay down to check out her new clone.

Xu Ai chose the Demon Sword Long Kui and discovered it had possessed Eve on a Zombie-infested planet called Sky Tower Planet. After Demon Eve found a young man with an impossible Space Ring, his System ordered him to subdue or kill her, and he decided to try subduing her within a month.

• Xu Ai chose the Demon Sword Long Kui, whose new viewpoint revealed Eve being threatened by a Zombie.
• Demon Eve possessed Eve, killed the Zombie, and learned from her memories that Zombies had overrun Sky Tower Planet.
• Xu Ai and Lexington searched for Sky Tower Planet and narrowed the possibilities to more than 10,000 planets matching its inhabitants' appearance.
• Demon Eve went to gather food in a mall storeroom and met a young man carrying a Space Ring and weapons.
• The young man's System gave him a quest to subdue or kill Eve after she noticed his Space Ring, and he chose to try subduing her within a month.

Mo Yifu and Yan Hong cleared a residential complex and discovered that its zombies held powerful Crystal Cores, while Xu Ai learned the planet could be a World Lord's breeding ground. Yan Hong and Mo Yifu both broke through to Planetary Level, and Mo Yifu recognized that Yan Hong had a system before they split up to clear the remaining buildings.

• Mo Yifu cut through the zombies as she and Yan Hong secured the residential complex and locked its entrances.
• Yan Hong absorbed a zombie's Crystal Core and advanced from Apprentice Level to Planetary Level, awakening the Flash Thunder ability.
• Xu Ai asked Lexington to investigate the virus and Crystal Cores, then identified the cores as high-grade and suspected Sky Tower Planet was a World Lord's Gu-Raising Ground.
• Yan Hong received the Thunder Slash secret art and the A9-grade polearm Shanming as his reward for breaking through.
• Mo Yifu used the Devouring Heaven Demon Art to absorb a Crystal Core, reached nearly Planetary Level, Fourth Rank, and awakened her Purgatory ability.
• Mo Yifu told Yan Hong how to divide up the remaining buildings, and he headed to Building B while she went to Building A.

Mo Yifu discovered that the zombie-like girl attacking her was Karen, a newly transformed member of the Corpse Race, and learned more about the race from Xu Ai and Lexington. After calming Karen, Mo Yifu brought her and the unconscious Eve to Jun Qing and Jun Yao’s apartment to recover and clean up.

• Mo Yifu cleared zombies in Building A, reassured Jun Qing and Jun Yao, and encountered the frenzied Karen on the stairs.
• Xu Ai and Lexington explained the Corpse Race’s origins, traits, healing, and Crystal Cores; Mo Yifu realized Eve was also a member of the race.
• Mo Yifu let Karen hold the Demon Sword Long Kui and collapsed, allowing Karen to regain her senses and recall how she had lost her family.
• Mo Karen carried the unconscious Eve to Jun Qing and Jun Yao’s apartment, asked for clothes and a bath, and introduced herself as the resident of apartment 703.

Long Kui manifested as a Sword Spirit after Karen and Eve fought over the Demon Sword, then ordered them to stop and assigned the sword to Karen. After meeting Jun Qing and Jun Yao outside the bathroom, Long Kui left Eve hoping for a chance to hold her again.

• Jun Yao questioned why Karen kept hold of the Demon Sword while bathing, and Eve woke and tried to take it from Karen.
• Karen and Eve fought over the sword until Long Kui manifested as a Sword Spirit and made them stop.
• Long Kui told Karen and Eve to take a bath and get dressed, then reassured Jun Qing and Jun Yao that she had entered the bathroom using a special ability.
• Karen took the Demon Sword while Eve left the bathroom empty-handed and resentful.
• Eve asked Long Kui for permission to hold her and take in her scent, leaving Long Kui startled by the request.

Long Kui and her group finished clearing Buildings A and C while survivors gathered supplies, and Yan Hong struggled through Building B alone. The group reunited outside the buildings, where Yan Hong revealed he had killed a second-tier Zombie.

• Long Kui finished clearing Building A, then invited Jun Qing and Jun Yao to join the group as they headed for Building C.
• Long Kui sent Eve and Karen to fight through Building C while Jun Qing and Jun Yao collected Crystal Cores; they cleared the floors and found only three survivors.
• Long Kui's group encountered Yan Hong as he emerged from Building B, battered from fighting Zombies alone.
• Yan Hong showed Long Kui a dark green Crystal Core from a second-tier Zombie he had killed in Building B.

Long Kui and her group cleared the apartment complex and established a survivor base, then organized its residents to patrol and strengthen its defenses. The next morning, she urged her companions to absorb Crystal Cores and grow stronger as the dangers on Sky Tower Planet continued to rise.

• Karen and Eve fought through the Zombies in Building D while Yan Hong joined the battle, and Long Kui studied the mysterious System in his ring.
• Long Kui led the group through the final building and the underground parking garage, establishing a small base with seventy-three survivors.
• The survivors were assigned patrols and repair work, while Wen Lai reported that they were making weapons and reinforcing the base.
• Long Kui ordered her companions to absorb Crystal Cores and increase their strength, warning that the Zombies could grow to Universe Level and threaten the Corpse Race.

After a supply run brought Yan Hong’s squad into contact with Suo Wen’s group, Mo Yifu recognized familiar roles that suggested another apocalypse story was unfolding. The two squads spent the night together, leaving Mo Yifu eager to see what would happen next.

• Yan Hong and Mo Yifu led a team to gather supplies, while Karen took another group to the mall.
• Suo Wen introduced himself as a Tier Two fire-type esper, and Yan Hong revealed that he was a Tier Four lightning-type esper.
• Mo Yifu noticed that Mo Hua was a water-type esper and that Bai Yu was the only ordinary person in Suo Wen’s squad, strengthening her sense of déjà vu.
• Yan Hong and Suo Wen’s groups gathered supplies separately and agreed to stay in the warehouse overnight.
• Mo Yifu considered sending her Clone out to observe the story unfolding around Yan Hong and Suo Wen’s group.

Bai Yu awakened with memories of a previous life and used her newfound strength to break away from the Suo Wen Squad and reclaim her mother's necklace. When she attacked Yan Hong for his ring, Mo Yifu stopped her, leaving Bai Yu stunned by how different this life had become.

• Mo Yifu sensed Bai Yu absorbing energy at an extraordinary rate and suspected she had gained a special talent.
• Bai Yu woke believing she had been reborn, then struck Qiao down and announced she was leaving the Suo Wen Squad.
• Bai Yu took the green tea girl's necklace, erased its Spiritual Imprint, and discovered it held enough G-grade Nutrient Solution to reach World Lord Level.
• Bai Yu trapped the Suo Wen Squad in her Light Domain and knocked them unconscious.
• Bai Yu charged at Yan Hong to take his ring, but Mo Yifu sent her flying with her greatsword.
• Bai Yu recognized that Eve was much stronger in this life, while Yan Hong denied being her former love interest.

Bai Yu joined Mo Yifu’s group and returned with them to the Xian San Survivor Base, where she met its leader, Long Kui. After the group reported on the mission and Bai Yu refused to reveal how she had become so powerful, Long Kui ordered the cultivation method distributed to the guards.

• Bai Yu declined to explain why she had attacked Yan Hong and agreed to go with Mo Yifu to the survivor base.
• Mo Yifu and Bai Yu traveled with the group for more than six hours through zombie-infested roads to reach the fortified base.
• Long Kui welcomed Bai Yu to the Xian San Survivor Base, where more than 130 survivors lived.
• Karen took the Demon Sword when the group returned, allowing Eve to regain control of her body.
• Wen Lai questioned Bai Yu about her sudden strength, but she refused to reveal her secret.
• Wen Lai recommended giving the cultivation method to the guards, and Long Kui approved the plan.

After a year of wars and upheaval on Sky Tower Planet, Long Kui’s Xian San Survivor Base became Xian III Base City, and Bai Yu continued cultivating at an extraordinary pace. Wen Lai then warned Long Kui that a huge meteor swarm would strike in three years and deadly stellar radiation storms would follow, leaving her to organize shelters for the city.

• Eve told Long Kui that Yan Hong had rescued a woman from harassment by people from another Base City, and the woman had returned with him as his girlfriend.
• Long Kui reflected on how wars between ability users, ordinary people, and survivor bases had devastated Sky Tower Planet before the remaining bases reached a compromise.
• Long Kui learned that Bai Yu had been cultivating in seclusion for a week and suspected the white jade pendant held a small world containing powerful Nutrient Solution.
• Wen Lai reported that a meteor swarm would likely hit Sky Tower Planet in three years and that a solar flare and super radiation storms would threaten life four years later.
• Long Kui canceled Yan Hong’s request to go out and ordered Wen Lai and Yan Hong to build shelters for everyone in Xian III Base City.

Xu Ai helped Long Kui’s group speed up construction of their underground shelter by providing a design, while she and her companions continued training and preparing for their futures. Raiden Shogun refined her fusion of lightning and time laws, and Hen Ren learned from her new teacher, King Longyu.

• Xu Ai chose an underground shelter design and sent it to Long Kui, who had Wen Lai deliver the plans to the architects.
• Xu Ai told Xu Xin she had reached Universe Level first rank and described her ability to defeat powerful Domain Lords before Liu Ting took her to train.
• Raiden Shogun practiced fusing the laws of lightning and time and planned to refine the technique before reaching Virtual Universe Company headquarters.
• Hen Ren asked King Longyu for guidance on law comprehension, and King Longyu traced patterns that helped Hen Ren deepen her understanding.
• King Longyu reflected that Hen Ren’s exceptional talent made taking her as a disciple a valuable opportunity.

Cai Yi gained the Wind Origin Law's acknowledgment at Universe Level after comprehending the Law of Wind and eight fundamentals of the Time Origin Law in less than ten years. She persuaded Isabella and Evangeline to let her train on her own while they watched from a distance, and chose Planet 173 for her adventure.

• The Origin of Laws descended when the Seven-Star Ladybug returned to the Primal Universe, and Cai Yi received the Wind Origin Law's acknowledgment.
• The Mother Empresses congratulated Cai Yi, while Evangeline celebrated her rapid progress toward Wind Spirit Master's requirements.
• Cai Yi refused to return to the Empress Universe right away and asked Isabella and Evangeline to let her train independently on a planet.
• Isabella agreed to watch over Cai Yi from afar and showed her planets in the Qika Galaxy.
• Cai Yi chose Planet 173, where the strongest people who remained were Domain Lords because Isabella's Soul Slaves had subdued the immortals and World Lords.

Cai Yi arrived in the Qika Galaxy and began exploring a continent populated by giants, where she demonstrated her close-combat strength. She set out for a nearby city hoping to find a contest or battle.

• Ye Zhan welcomed Cai Yi, Isabella, and Evangeline, then reported that he had subdued a newly immortal being in the Qika Galaxy.
• Isabella took Cai Yi to a continent of giants and left her there with Evangeline.
• A winged giant lizard attacked Cai Yi, and she killed it with her Wind Origin Law-infused Claw Gauntlets.
• Cai Yi inspected her custom battle equipment, concealed her butterfly wings beneath her battle suit, and flew toward a nearby city.

Cai Yi learned about Xiao Yan’s broken engagement and thirty-year challenge, then sneaked into the Xiao Clan estate to find him. She discovered Xiao Yan bleeding from a wound in his abdomen while Xiao Yue E and an unknown Universe Realm old man stood nearby.

• Cai Yi used illusion to make the innkeeper her subordinate and learned about the Earth Spirit Continent and its realms.
• The innkeeper told Cai Yi that Wu Dalin had broken off her engagement to Xiao Yan, who had smashed her offered potion and challenged her to a fight in thirty years.
• Cai Yi asked for the Xiao Clan’s address, then entered its estate under cover of an illusion.
• Cai Yi used a guard’s memories to locate Xiao Yan, but found him lying wounded in a neighboring courtyard beside Xiao Yue E and an old man at the Universe Realm.

After Yue E killed Xiao Yan, she left the Xiao Clan with Uncle Zhen and traveled to the Jiuhua Sect, while Cai Yi secretly followed. Cai Yi and Yue E passed the sect’s admission tests and became Outer Disciples.

• Yue E and Uncle Zhen discussed Xiao Yan’s past harassment, then left three Tier 2 Blood Qi Potions beside his corpse before departing the Xiao Clan.
• Cai Yi followed Yue E and Uncle Zhen, helped them fend off beasts during their month-long journey, and learned Yue E planned to join the Jiuhua Sect.
• Cai Yi followed Yue E through the Jiuhua Sect’s gravity-testing mountain path, pretending to struggle as Yue E climbed beside her.
• Cai Yi used an illusion to pass the age and cultivation checks, while Yue E qualified with her actual age and cultivation.
• Cai Yi and Yue E officially became Jiuhua Sect Outer Disciples.

Yue E revealed the limitations of her martial soul while sparring with Cai Yi. Meanwhile, Xu Ai and the others arrived at the immense Virtual Universe Company Headquarters, where King Longyu explained that they would wait for the other geniuses before departing for the Initial Universe.

• Yue E told Cai Yi she had reached the fifth level of the Heavenly Star Realm and challenged her to another match.
• During their spar, Yue E manifested her martial soul and explained that it grew by absorbing souls but became nearly useless at the Universe Realm.
• Yue E criticized the Blue Silver Dynasty for restricting its people to tools and food formed from martial souls.
• Xu Ai, Luo Feng, and Hong arrived at the Virtual Universe Company Headquarters with King Longyu, a continent said to span dozens of light-years.
• King Longyu said they would remain together for another year and a half until the other geniuses arrived and their ship departed for the Initial Universe.

Xu Ai and the other geniuses departed for the Initial Universe aboard a spacecraft with Nine Swords Venerable and King Longyu. They entered the Cosmic Passage, recovered from its disorienting effects, and looked out at the strange rifts and secret patterns within it.

• Cai Yi's reputation as the Queen of Blades spread while Long Kui gathered resources and studied Xu Ai's technology.
• A red-eyed man led the geniuses onto the deep-blue spacecraft, where they met Nine Swords Venerable and prepared to travel to the Initial Universe.
• The spacecraft entered the Cosmic Passage, and Nine Swords Venerable explained why its chaotic time flow made most of the geniuses ill.
• After the disorientation passed, Nine Swords Venerable opened the spacecraft's top and showed Xu Ai and the others the passage's cosmic rifts and repairing secret patterns.

Xu Ai and the other geniuses arrived in Chaos City and began learning about its cultivation resources and rules. As they examined the Chaos Steles, the Chaos City Leader secretly screened them, finding unusual fortunes in Raiden Shogun and Luo Feng before the group continued studying the paintings.

• Big Fish brought Xu Ai and the others to Chaos City, where Nine Swords Venerable and King Longyu left them with the Chaos City Reception Envoy.
• The Black-Robed Envoy introduced Chaos City and led the newcomers to the corridor of 52 paintings representing the Chaos Steles.
• The Chaos City Leader took control of the corridor and secretly examined the new arrivals for foreign souls and unusual traits.
• The Chaos City Leader found Raiden Shogun had an exceptionally high Gene Level and noted her lightning blade and trace of Law of Thunder-Time Fusion.
• The Chaos City Leader recognized Luo Feng as an Earthling who had seized a Golden Horned Beast's body and praised Rong Jun's choice to join the Virtual Universe Company.
• The Chaos City Leader finished screening the group while the geniuses continued examining the paintings.

Xu Ai, Hen Ren, Raiden Shogun, and the other geniuses chose Chaos Steles to study and entered their training chambers for seven days. After they went inside, Nine Swords Venerable joked with Candri about protecting his promising disciple from being recruited.

• Xu Ai and the others examined the Chaos Stele rubbings and considered which paths suited them.
• Xu Ai chose the Nine Universes Chaos Stele, Hen Ren chose the Universe Chaos Stele, and Raiden Shogun chose the Mother Ancestor Chaos Stele; Bolan also chose the Nine Universes Chaos Stele.
• The Black-Robed Envoy reported the choices and led the group to the training chambers, where Candri greeted them.
• Candri told the geniuses to leave when the doors opened in seven days, and they entered their chosen chambers.
• Nine Swords Venerable emerged and joked with Candri about his interest in recruiting a promising disciple.

Raiden Shogun, Hen Ren, and Xu Ai studied the Chaos Steles and rapidly absorbed new insights, while Luo Feng and Wuka discussed their choices. A battle between two powerful Immortals showed Xu Ai how dangerous the gap in strength was, leaving her determined to get stronger faster.

• Raiden Shogun examined the Mother Ancestor Chaos Stele, whose diagrams inspired her understanding of the Time Origin Law.
• Hen Ren studied the Universe Chaos Stele and realized its final diagram represented a half-formed Initial Universe and a path toward becoming a Universe Supreme Being.
• Xu Ai absorbed Hen Ren and Raiden Shogun's insights, while Wuka and Rong Jun teased Luo Feng for choosing the Nine Universes Chaos Stele.
• Witesier and another Immortal fought across Chaos City until the Chaos City Leader froze the battle and crushed them with a hand of chaotic currents.
• The enforcement team took the weakened Immortals away, and Xu Ai resolved to get stronger faster.

After studying the Chaos Stele, Raiden Shogun declined offers from many Venerables and went to meet Nine Swords Venerable, explaining that Chaos City Leader had invited her to become his disciple. She then entered the City Lord's Inner Mansion, where Venerable Gui Yi awaited her.

• Xu Ai studied the first image of the Nine Universes Chaos Stele, while Long Kui analyzed her insights into the Law of Space Origin.
• Hen Ren and Raiden Shogun left the cultivation chamber after seven days, and Candri advised everyone to find a residence and apply to enter the Heaven's Bridge.
• Raiden Shogun read her messages, found Chaos City Leader's invitation to become his nominal disciple, and asked Lexington to politely decline the other offers.
• Raiden Shogun visited Nine Swords Venerable and told him she had received Chaos City Leader's invitation, and he advised her to show Chaos City Leader the utmost respect.
• Raiden Shogun went to the City Lord's Inner Mansion, where the guards confirmed her summons and admitted her to meet Venerable Gui Yi.